Litofsky

They characterized the tax as an 'emergency measure' that had a sundown clause just like the Patriot act now. Yet they never let the emergency end. Befrore 1933, there was a pauper's oath you had to swear to get government assisntance here. By doing so, you also gave up the right to vote until you could rescind it. In return the government would have you work on roads etc in return for room and board. Every other charitable functions were controled by the churches, so the 'faith based initiative' Bush pushed was to get al of those government organizations out of the welfare business. As for taxes, read the section written by Tom Clancy in Executive Orders. He pointed out that title 17 (Income tax law) is 90 percent loopholes that can be used by someone to avoid paying their 'fair share'. What he didn't mention is the tax structure was created in 1970 when a CEO was making about 50,000 a year, yet has not been changed. So the upper middle class, the working stiffs, are getting screwed because they are suddenly 'upper management.

As for the industry the Russians were allowed to take any factories in the Russian zone, England France and the US was supposed to take 30 percent, giving ten to the Russians as reparations. Their actions were shabby because the New Dealers who had lost power when Truman took office were kicked to the curb, and they took over administration of the US zone. One of their acts was to take all of the landed estates and divide them into farms given to small farmers without compensation. Considering they had been brutalized by the Nazis then by us, it's not surprising they didn't want to deal with us for years. In fact ex treasury secretary morgenthau had sugested we make the entire nation agrarian, destroy all industry across Germany to force them to become farmers. The fact that the only way to do so was reduce the German population to less than 6 million was conveniently ignored.

Also, Roosevelt did everything he could to get us into WWII long before Pearl Harbor. He signed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1940, and began to escort convoys first within 200 miles of the coast then split the Atlantic so that east of Iceland Americans were escorting them. When USS Kearny prosecuted an atack against a German U Boat within that 'neutral zone (A violation of international law by the way) He used that as proof of German brutality when that sub dared to fire a torpedo that didn't even come close just to warn the destroyer off. Two American destroyers, the Rueben James and the Greer werre torpedoed during this time and the Democrats screamed about brutal attacks. What was brought out (And drove public opinion) was that both ships were of the same class as the 50 lend lease (Another violation of International law) destroyers we had given the English.

Now to make matter worse, read a book by Thorvald called the Last Secret of Pearl Harbor. Thorvald was the COMDESPAC (COmmander destroyers in the Pacific) in 1941who was incensed by the treatment of Admiral Kimmel. In 1953 he was able to get declassified records about Magic, the code breaking used to read the Japanese codes. He pointed out that while the British had two of the Magic machines, one in Singapore another in London, MacArthur had one, and High COmmand in DC did, Kimmel was not only cut out of that loop, but had to depend on telegrams and radio reports from the US. When the Japanese Ambassador in Hawaii was ordered to give the location of every ship in the harbor first once a month at in late november once a day, he was not told. The famous 'war warning he recieved told him to expect attacks against the phillipnes and points west from there. Worst yet, the US knew the night before that the enemy intended to attack at precisely 1 PM DC time. That meant the only place they could make a surprise attack was Pearl, since it would have been noon in the Canal Zone and 10 Am on the west coast.